Lenovo is one to talk considering that the quality of the thinkpads have taken a nosedive ever since they purchased the division from IBM.![]()
Lenovo is one to talk considering that the quality of the thinkpads have taken a nosedive ever since they purchased the division from IBM.![]()
Ummmm they really haven't. In fact I think they've gotten better in some regards. The X201 is probably the best premium ultraportable out there, 10 hours of realistic battery life with a full fledge Core i5 is insane. The Thinkpad build quality is still there.
Lenovo Thinkpad = IBM Thinkpad.
Can the chinese afford Apples ridiculously priced products?
the PRC is becoming a world superpower in many ways...... penetrating africa and it's minerals, global trade and such............ a market no large US company can/should ignore! and the CHINESE people work hard!
we can talk again in 2-5 years time!
You are hugely mistaken. Many people who live in those cities are on average richer than those who live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now I am not talking about China as a whole (as some don't have access to free running water) but for the ones that can afford it.... they certainly CAN afford Apple products.
I am more surprised at the fact that there isn't an Apple store in Hong Kong yet (7 million people in a place smaller than San Francisco, and a place where both Westerners and Easterners meet)
The problem with a communist country is that normal people like you and me have nothing while the government officials and their families have everything.
For example:
I can own a bicycle and live off of the land by growing crops on our farm. Every year, we would be paying "taxes" to the government, leaving us nothing to spare. If we have extras and want to sell them to make a better living, we would be imprisoned for supposedly "making a profit out of government properties."
My neighbor who is a member of the communist party, however, can do whatever he wants and have big mansions with Bentleys and whatnot. No one bothers him... all he has to do is "steal" from the rest of us hard workers.
Been there, done that.
My family, for example, has been badly affected by the communists. My grandparents on both sides were extremely rich people. In 1954 when the communists took over North Vietnam, my grandparents lost everything. They even tried to kill them because rich people were the most influential people. My grandparents were extremely kind to he villagers, so they stood up for them and would not allow the communists to do anything to my grandparents, so they lived to die at their old age instead of being tortured and killed by the communists like other rich people whose villagers can careless about.
I can imagine Chinese communists to have something in that regard... where normal people don't have anything while communist party members steal everything from the people and therefore are extremely rich compared to the rest of the county.
GM sold more cars in China than they did in the US last month.
One could argue that any industrializing country with a vast and cheap labor pool, a state-planned economy focused on growth at all costs, lacking costly environmental regulations and social safety nets, will experience rapid growth. The problems arise when you begin extrapolating future trajectories based on past performance. If I did that during the late 90s at the height of the tech bubble in the US, I'd have said myself and my friends would all be multimillionaires by now!
The real estate market is floating 1000 miles above earth in a shiny bubble, thanks to massive capital injections from China's $600 billion stimulus. Labor costs are rising (Foxconn?) and manufacturers on the lowest rungs of the value-added ladder, such as footwear and clothing, are already moving to Vietnam and Indonesia. China is still dependent on foreign exports for GDP, keeping its yuan pegged to the USD. It hasn't developed any internationally recognized brands a la Korea and Japan. (Lenovo wasn't widely known until it acquired IBM PCs).
Living here for so many years, one becomes a teensy bit cynical. Nothing is what it seems in China. Most of the breathless gushing news stories in the Western media are coming directly from Xinhua... a state run news agency. But the West just laps its up. Part of it may be the quixotic wish to keep the engines of growth in the world economy revving at top gear, when things are looking gloomy in the west. But yes, it's a big market, one Apple would be foolish to ignore.![]()
Lenovo is one to talk considering that the quality of the thinkpads have taken a nosedive ever since they purchased the division from IBM.![]()
Steve "The Big Pearl" Jobs has a strange ring to it.
Chuanzhi's comments don't seem to be a challenge to me. It really, strangely, seems like he's saying the they are toast if Apple focuses more on China. And he's saying these things a week before they open their Shanghai store? Weird.
Yes, Lenovo should shut their mouths about being afraid of Apple as a competitor in China. Wait, what?
Christ, do some of you even read the articles before you respond or are pro-Apple, anti-everything else responses pre-written into your clipboards?
Along with the mbp, thinkpads are the best laptops i have ever used
One could argue that any industrializing country with a vast and cheap labor pool, a state-planned economy focused on growth at all costs, lacking costly environmental regulations and social safety nets, will experience rapid growth. The problems arise when you begin extrapolating future trajectories based on past performance. If I did that during the late 90s at the height of the tech bubble in the US, I'd have said myself and my friends would all be multimillionaires by now!
The real estate market is floating 1000 miles above earth in a shiny bubble, thanks to massive capital injections from China's $600 billion stimulus. Labor costs are rising (Foxconn?) and manufacturers on the lowest rungs of the value-added ladder, such as footwear and clothing, are already moving to Vietnam and Indonesia. China is still dependent on foreign exports for GDP, keeping its yuan pegged to the USD. It hasn't developed any internationally recognized brands a la Korea and Japan. (Lenovo wasn't widely known until it acquired IBM PCs).
Living here for so many years, one becomes a teensy bit cynical. Nothing is what it seems in China. Most of the breathless gushing news stories in the Western media are coming directly from Xinhua... a state run news agency. But the West just laps its up. Part of it may be the quixotic wish to keep the engines of growth in the world economy revving at top gear, when things are looking gloomy in the west. But yes, it's a big market, one Apple would be foolish to ignore.![]()
democratic style countries no different from communist countries
at the end, who can do good for most percentage of population.
it looks like though communist countries are far better than democratic style countires - i am talking only about developing countries ...
Remember that Lenovo is a relatively young company -- they were formed by purchasing IBM's personal computer business. They've only been around for ~10 years.
I think it's time for you to wake up! Your dream world is about to shatter in your face...
1. baidu.com is the biggest search engine in China and iphone/ipad still do not provide an option to make it a default search engine after the iso update.